Take a look at the Brother HL-2040, or if you need networking, the HL-2070N. Comments that follow pertain to the 2070N, but the 2040 is the same printer without networking, and with a different case color.
Toner is dirt cheap, even cheaper if you get aftermarket, and we're getting ~1000 pages per starter cartridge, ~2500 per extra-high capacity starter, and that's with K-12 students that don't know how to save toner printing.
Durability is very good, we've had one thrown across a classroom still work. (Although, there's another one that the back door switch failed on, have to call Brother for an RMA...)
Linux support is there, although I haven't had a chance to use it. These printers speak PCL, anyway, so you can get around any restrictions. Better than the Minolta offering in that space, the PagePro 1400W, which speaks its own proprietary language. (Last time I used min12xxw, a third party OSS driver, it was OK, as long as you stuck to 600x600 DPI. Else, it got ugly fast.)
I find that the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300/2400 series has good print quality, is cheap, and the 2400s are small.
Toner's a bit pricy, though, and Linux support for the 2300W and 2400W is third party only. Interestingly, i could only get color to work on my 2300DL by using the (open source) 2430DL drivers. (They're 100% compatible with the 2300DL. They're the same printer electronically, just the 2430 has a more logical layout.)
I won't deny that the firewall at my work has plenty of ways around it. That's not the point - above the filtering that our ISP does (which goes well beyond CIPA minimums - sometimes to levels where it actively hinders learning, due to overfiltering - and yes, we've tried to get them to unblock the relevant categories - and no, we can't switch ISPs,) we block specific sites that we don't want students to access manually.
If students do get around the firewalls, that specific student gets their account disabled. (Same goes for sharing accounts.)
Well, it's all a moot point anyway as to which versions of BASIC had the hires manipulation commands - the implementation of subpixel rendering is in the hardware.:)
Quoted from Apple II History Chapter 3:
On the motherboard were two empty sockets that were available for the user to plug in their own ROM chips. The $D000-$D7FF space was most often used by a plug-in ROM chip sold by Apple, known as "Programmer's Aid #1." It contained various utilities for Integer BASIC programmers, including machine language routines to do the following: ...
Handle hi-res graphics from BASIC, including code to clear the hi-res screen, set colors, plot points and lines, draw shapes and load shapes from tape.
True, that isn't PART of Integer BASIC.
But... from Chapter 16:
To fully appreciate this narrative, you need to know a little about an old Integer BASIC program, APPLEVISION. This was found on the DOS 3.2.1 System Master disk, and was a fun little display that showed off the use of hi-res graphics. It began by creating a simple line drawing of a room, with a picture on the wall ("HOME SWEET HOME") and a television set. On the screen of the TV appeared a man who danced to the tune of "Turkey In The Straw", which sounded on the built-in speaker. It ran repeatedly, until the user interrupted the program. It was fascinating at the time, since there was nothing in the program text that showed off exactly how the hi-res effects were accomplished. (my emphasis)
Apple did it, and was kicking themselves for using MS BASIC, because it was... sucky... in the extensibility respect, but they did it anyway, because they had to.
However, the point is moot - Integer had the same commands, and it was written by Woz from scratch.
And, it was a hardware "feature" that Woz had implemented in the color circuitry.
One thing about the DRM thing... one example I've seen a few times is that some people want to make copies of VHS tapes or DVDs so that their kids don't destroy the main copy.
It's easier to do this on VHS or DVD - just buy a cheap Macrovision killer, and you can dub to VHS.
I was going for even more evil. Like, oh, your average e-mail virus "hay free screensaver", but with a component that reflashes with a custom BIOS - maybe even downloading a BIOS for that motherboard from the manufacturer, appending the payload, and reflashing.
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So, the question is, can this procedure be used on AACS to make it alive again? :P
I recreated it, this time with relevant wikilinks, and a link to this thread (to satisfy the notoriety requirements...)
The idea was that he just had a bunch of herring, not sex. Then again, feel free to think that... :P
Also, I just checked, and the 2040 is a dumb printer... but does have Linux support if you search for it.
The 2070N isn't much more, though.
And I meant extra-high capacity aftermarket... *doh*
Take a look at the Brother HL-2040, or if you need networking, the HL-2070N. Comments that follow pertain to the 2070N, but the 2040 is the same printer without networking, and with a different case color.
Toner is dirt cheap, even cheaper if you get aftermarket, and we're getting ~1000 pages per starter cartridge, ~2500 per extra-high capacity starter, and that's with K-12 students that don't know how to save toner printing.
Durability is very good, we've had one thrown across a classroom still work. (Although, there's another one that the back door switch failed on, have to call Brother for an RMA...)
Linux support is there, although I haven't had a chance to use it. These printers speak PCL, anyway, so you can get around any restrictions. Better than the Minolta offering in that space, the PagePro 1400W, which speaks its own proprietary language. (Last time I used min12xxw, a third party OSS driver, it was OK, as long as you stuck to 600x600 DPI. Else, it got ugly fast.)
I find that the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300/2400 series has good print quality, is cheap, and the 2400s are small.
Toner's a bit pricy, though, and Linux support for the 2300W and 2400W is third party only. Interestingly, i could only get color to work on my 2300DL by using the (open source) 2430DL drivers. (They're 100% compatible with the 2300DL. They're the same printer electronically, just the 2430 has a more logical layout.)
However, the 2xxx family is carousel-based.
(As for B&W, I 3 the Brother HL-2040 and 2070N.)
Correct.
There's a howto on giving the root account a real password on the Ubuntu forums, but they recommend "sudo su" instead.
Just because someone makes a large salary off of it doesn't mean that it is necessary.
Anyway, the advantages to trucks over rail is that they're more flexible.
F12 > Edit site preferences > Network > Mask as Internet Explorer.
;)
I 3 Opera 9.
Except Spyglass Mosaic had no NCSA Mosaic source code, and also, IE was based on Spyglass, not NCSA. ;)
Yeah, but in some areas, Verizon is the only POTS provider.
(That's when you go to cell phones, though.)
moslo? DOSBox with the cycles turned down to 500?
There's quite a few games written in Python.
Anyway, you seriously expect someone to click on a TINYURL link in a Slashdot sig?
Well, if a student loses computer access here, we sometimes allow certain access times, for classes that they must use a computer for.
Or, if they lose computer access privileges, it's usually a teacher that requests it, and the other teachers can work around that.
Seems like layman's speak for using a proxy, yes.
I won't deny that the firewall at my work has plenty of ways around it. That's not the point - above the filtering that our ISP does (which goes well beyond CIPA minimums - sometimes to levels where it actively hinders learning, due to overfiltering - and yes, we've tried to get them to unblock the relevant categories - and no, we can't switch ISPs,) we block specific sites that we don't want students to access manually.
If students do get around the firewalls, that specific student gets their account disabled. (Same goes for sharing accounts.)
...would have blocked *.myspace.com at the firewall level, if their nazi content filter didn't already do it for them.
Well, it's all a moot point anyway as to which versions of BASIC had the hires manipulation commands - the implementation of subpixel rendering is in the hardware. :)
- Handle hi-res graphics from BASIC, including code to clear the hi-res screen, set colors, plot points and lines, draw shapes and load shapes from tape.
True, that isn't PART of Integer BASIC.But... from Chapter 16: To fully appreciate this narrative, you need to know a little about an old Integer BASIC program, APPLEVISION. This was found on the DOS 3.2.1 System Master disk, and was a fun little display that showed off the use of hi-res graphics. It began by creating a simple line drawing of a room, with a picture on the wall ("HOME SWEET HOME") and a television set. On the screen of the TV appeared a man who danced to the tune of "Turkey In The Straw", which sounded on the built-in speaker. It ran repeatedly, until the user interrupted the program. It was fascinating at the time, since there was nothing in the program text that showed off exactly how the hi-res effects were accomplished. (my emphasis)
Apple did it, and was kicking themselves for using MS BASIC, because it was... sucky... in the extensibility respect, but they did it anyway, because they had to.
However, the point is moot - Integer had the same commands, and it was written by Woz from scratch.
And, it was a hardware "feature" that Woz had implemented in the color circuitry.
One thing about the DRM thing... one example I've seen a few times is that some people want to make copies of VHS tapes or DVDs so that their kids don't destroy the main copy.
It's easier to do this on VHS or DVD - just buy a cheap Macrovision killer, and you can dub to VHS.
Why not run 98 instead? It's faster and more stable... and largely the same damn thing as ME. :)
I was going for even more evil. Like, oh, your average e-mail virus "hay free screensaver", but with a component that reflashes with a custom BIOS - maybe even downloading a BIOS for that motherboard from the manufacturer, appending the payload, and reflashing.
Very, very sinister.
Reflashing the BIOS will obviously trip UAC...
But then again, with how many other things trip UAC, they'll just click "Allow" anyway.
Three words.
Data Execution Prevention.